Adam Carolla

Carolla was born in Philadelphia, PA on May 27, 1964, but raised in Southern California. While attending North Hollywood High School, he was a star football athlete, but a poor student. The class clown had dreams of becoming a comedy writer, but even the offer of a football scholarship to U.C. Davis was not enough to make him continue his lackluster academic career. After high school (from which he claimed he never officially graduated because he owed library fines for an overdue book), Carolla embarked on a series of blue-collar jobs, including carpentry, landscaping, carpet cleaning and house painting. He was not resigned to a tool belt-toting future, however, and spent his evenings perfor... Continue Bio >>